Editor:
The great front-page headlines of our time include:
Hiroshima Destroyed
Great War Ends
Men Walk on the Moon
Nixon Resigns
Titanic Sinks
Nelson Mandela Freed
Test Tube Baby Born
Berlin Wall Tumbles
And locally, “Tim Hor-tons coming to Sechelt.”
Now what about that opening sentence – are people really driving from Sechelt to Gibsons for a coffee? Well, that is unsettling news! Which reminds me of the old joke: What does a barista call a small decaf with skim milk and no sugar? A “why bother.”
One supposes that ongoing local issues such as housing and water shortages, elder care challenges, province-wide elections, forest fires, air quality, and the opioid crisis are now second-page news?
Alan Donenfeld, Gibsons
